Last month, Apple Inc. released its updated list of suppliers&nbsp;(PDF). This report says it includes "the major manufacturing locations of suppliers who provide raw materials and components or perform final assembly on Apple." ChinaFile used this data to construct the interactive map, above.

While the NPD no longer provides specific sales numbers for hardware, a representative does tell us that sales of the Wii U hardware for its first three months on the market are down 38% from what the Wii's numbers were at that same point.

We're told by someone with access to the NPD's data that sales for January were "well under" 100,000 units. By our estimates, sales were somewhere between 45,000 and 59,000 units for the month, which is lower than any of the three previous-generation home consoles sold in their worst months, with the possible exception of a recent performance by the original Wii.

THis is all estimation, but Nintendo's own numbers don't suggest the Wii U is doing anything special either.

In July 2011, Motorola filed a complaint in Germany's Mann­heim District Court charging that Microsoft's Xbox was infringing two of its video-coding patents. In May 2012 -- less than nine months later -- the court granted an injunction.

Contrast that with Judge Lucy Koh's federal court in the Northern District of California.

"During the past months," Raiu wrote, "we've monitored a series of targeted attacks against Uyghur supporters, most notably against the World Uyghur Congress... Although some of these attacks were observed during 2012, we've noticed a significant spike in the number of attacks during Jan 2013 and Feb 2013, indicating the attackers are extremely active at the moment."

Victims are targeted via email, with messages that appear to include a relevant attachment, sometimes a Word document entitled "Concerns Over Uyghur People's Fundamental Rights Under The New Chinese Leadership," other times masquerading as a white paper.

Shane had died a week before he was to return to the US. The police said he had drilled holes into his bathroom wall, bolted in a pulley, then slipped a black strap through the pulley and wrapped it around the toilet several times. He then tethered the strap to his neck and jumped from a chair. Shane, 6ft 1in and nearly 200lb, hanged himself from the bathroom door, the autopsy report said.

So the Todds, along with two of Shane's younger brothers, John and Dylan, were unnerved by what they didn't see as they crossed the threshold. The front door was unlocked and there was no sign of an investigation – no crime-scene tape, no smudges from fingerprint searches. "The first thing I did was make a beeline for the bathroom," Mrs Todd recalled. She wanted to see exactly how Shane had died – and she saw nothing that fitted the police description. The marble bathroom walls had no holes in them. Nor were there any bolts or screws. The toilet was not where the police had said.

A missing laptop, a backup hard drive, a potentially "dual-use" (civilian and military) project using gallium arsenide being worked on by China's Huawei, instructions to employees at Todd's former company IME not to talk to anyone - and staff there thinking his death was not suicide. (May require subscription.)

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A South Korean politician who sought to expose corruption within Samsung's ranks has lost his seat in parliament. The Supreme Court upheld that by publishing transcripts of wiretapped conversations online, Roh Hoe-chan broke communications laws; the conviction means he cannot remain a lawmaker, and he has received a suspended prison sentence. In explaining its decision, the court said "Unlike distributing press releases to journalists, uploading messages on the Internet allows an easy access to anybody at any time."

…The conversations in question are part of what is known as the Samsung X-File, a trove of tapes illegally recorded by the government's intelligence service during the 1990s. The files include conversations between Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee and his brother in law, and reveal bribes allegedly paid by the conglomerate to prosecutors, politicians, and presidential candidates.

I was prompted to look into the question after several friends – Apple employees, no less — expressed disbelief at the claim. Their skepticism matched my own experience; in my years of reporting on Apple and speaking to many of its employees, I had never heard of such a practice. When I sought answers by interviewing current and former Apple engineers, I found that "fake" projects are certainly not a regular occurrence at Apple — and they quite probably do not exist at all.

Prepared to wager that there aren't 100 people inside Cupertino working on a smart watch project too. Ten, maybe.

It's pretty clear that your EAS client team doesn't know how Exchange client throttling works, how to retry EAS errors gently, or all the intricacies of recurring meeting management (and how the server's business logic works). If they did, the client wouldn't behave the way it has. They could learn it by trial and error… but look where that's gotten us.

I'm in Mountain View, right up the road. Seriously. Have your people call my people.

It is definitely puzzling, given Apple's targeting of the enterprise by stealth, that it doesn't have better coders and testers for EAS. (Thanks @arebee on Twitter for the link.)